Chickadee Smoothie with Feather Groups – Power Carving

Join us for this two day class on Power Carving Songbirds with Lynn Burnett

Clear your calendar for this amazing opportunity!

Lynn Burnett has had a life long passion for carving, starting as a young child when she received a small Jack knife as a gift from her Grandmother. Her love of wildlife and the natural world was nurtured by her parents who raised their family to enjoy camping, the outdoors and a love for animals. Today, camping, canoeing, and exploring the outdoors is where she collects wood and is inspired by what she sees.

Over the past 15 years Lynn has been focused on learning the craft of wood carving. She has been fortunate enough to take carving classes with world class carvers where she learned the skills to use knives, chisels, power tools and paint to transform wood and other media into her three dimensional sculptures and relief carvings.

Lynn has won many first place awards in carving competitions and has appeared twice in Wildfowl Carvings “Competition” magazine. She has done commission pieces for collectors in Canada and the US and has recently been interviewed for a newscast about her carving process and her participation in an Artists Studio Tour.

One of her greatest pleasures is encouraging others to learn and enjoy the art of carving!

This Class will be held on two consecutive Saturday’s.  January 11th and 18th, 2025 from 9am-4pm

Registration deadline will be January 1st as material preparations are required.

Max. number of students is 8, space is limited.

When processing registration payment, we will deduct the shipping fee from the online order for this class.

List of tools and equipment needed for this class.

Supplies:

L=Lynn (Your Instructor)

C=Chipping Away

S=Students (This is You)

• sample chickadee carvings (1 completed and painted and 4 complete carved). (L)
• Taxidermied grosbeak, textured bird carving (L)
• Paper and acetate patterns (L)
• Painting instructions (L)
• Sample pictures and anatomy pictures (L)
• Rough outs (C)
• 4 mm eyes (C)
• Cast feet(C)
• Pencil and eraser, note book (S)
• Callipers (S)
• Rough out and detail knivesknives (S)
• Power carver and bits (S)
• Fine grit sandpaper/sanding sticks (S)
• Quickwood (L)
• Dental picks (S&L)
• Toothpicks (L)
• Crazy glue (L)
• Paint brushes (small filbert or flat brush; medium round brush; fine detail brush; water container (S)
• Sealer and varsol (L)
• Gesso (L)
• Paint: titanium white, ultramarine blue, burnt umber , yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, cad yellow med, burnt sienna, Mars black by(L)
• Paint stick (S)
• Paint Pallet (S)
• Mist Spray bottle (like the kind for eye glasses spray) (S)
• Small hair dryer – second week (S)
• Paper towels (L)
• Hair dryer to dry paint between coats to speed up painting process (S)
• Carving Base (S)
• Dull coat for beaks (L)

Lesson Plan

DAY 1

1. Introduce myself; student introductions (name tags-cause I suck at remembering)
2. Overview of plans for Day 1 and Day 2
3. Discuss bird anatomy
4. Mark top and side centre lines on blank
5. Draw pattern on bird blank using clear overlays and calipers.
6. Show how to make 2D into 3D ie matching cape top and side profiles. Maybe use plasticine for demo
7. Round to centre lines leaving the centre lines drawn on the carving (can use knife at this stage if preferred). No flat spots
8. Carve “downhill” with the grain
9. Draw on wings and feather groups and outline
10. Outline/carve upper and lower tail coverts
11. Shape and thin tail
12. Shape feather groups
13. Draw head features using acetate patterns
14. Roughly shape head
15. Homework-sanding; base for carving; paint stick

DAY 2

1. Shape head and beak and sand. Discuss eye channel, moustache, etc
2. Drill eye holes and shape
3. Add eyes and eye rings
4. Refine, check over and final sand entire bird if needed
5. Add feet/legs if not using a painting stick
6. Seal and gesso
7. Draw on colour groups for head/body
8. Paint using painting stick, discuss Liquitwex vs JoSanja
9. Paint blocks of colours-white, black, grey
10. Flank colour
11. Feather edges
12. Soften colour borders
13. Paint feet and toenails, dull coat on beak